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In forceBanking sector: AML/CFT questionnaires (national)Last checked 11 November 2026

Annual AML/CFT questionnaire, banking sector (QLB Banque, BLANCHIMT)

A regulatory return listed by the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution) (ACPR), France.

The tables (BLANCHIMT) a banking-sector firm sends each year on its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) system and asset freezing: activity and risk classification, organisation, internal control, customer due diligence and suspicious transaction detection, asset freezing, sector questions, statistics and comments. The ACPR uses it to assess the compliance and effectiveness of each firm's system. Source

Official title: Questionnaire relatif au dispositif de prévention du blanchiment des capitaux et du financement des activités terroristes (QLB) - Banque

The facts

Who files
Banking, payment, e-money and investment firms within article L. 561-2, 1°, 1° bis, 1° ter, 6° and 6° bis of the Monetary and Financial Code (not those supervised by the AMF, nor firms only authorised for payment initiation or account information), and the Caisse des dépôts. Payment service providers also file B7-1 and B9. Firms doing only guarantees, factoring or certain institutional-client investment services file the lighter annex III tables (allégé 1); dormant EEA branches, newly authorised firms not yet active and 'tool' subsidiaries file annex IV (allégé 2). Source
How often
Annual (data at 31 December); B9 quarterly when a defaulting payment service provider is identified; B2-1 updates whenever a responsible person changes (monthly collection window). Source
Deadline
By 31 March each year (for example 31/03/2026); the quarterly complement by the last day of the current quarter; B2-1 by the last day of the current month. Source
Format
XBRL-XML, Excel. XBRL (ACPR LCB-FT taxonomy 2.4.0.1, common to banking and insurance) or Excel, on OneGate (instruction 2022-I-18, article 7), submitted by the effective managers; OneGate domains 'BLC' (banking) and 'BLA' (insurance). Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the ACPR: OneGate (Banque de France reporting portal); ACPR online survey forms; ECB CASPER (registers of information of significant institutions). See how firms file with the ACPR.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Banking sector: AML/CFT questionnaires (national)

Templates (18)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the ACPR's code in brackets.

  • Which questionnaire applies (banking) (TB.00.10 (B0-1))
  • Content of the submission: general banking QLB (TB.00.01 (B0))
  • Content of the submission: light banking QLB 1 (TB.00.04 (B0))
  • Content of the submission: light banking QLB 2 (TB.00.05 (B0))
  • General information on the business and the firm's risk classification (TB.01.01 (B1))
  • Identity of AML/CFT officers, Tracfin declarants and correspondents (TB.02.01 (B2-1))
  • Organisation of the AML/CFT system (TB.02.02 (B2-2))
  • Internal control of the AML/CFT system and of customer, account and person identification for tax evasion (TB.03.01 (B3))
  • Risk-based due diligence and detection of suspicious transactions (TB.05.01 (B5))
  • Asset freezing and restrictive measures (TB.06.01 (B6))
  • Sector questionnaire: payment and investment service providers (TB.07.01 (B7-1))
  • Sector questionnaire: crypto-asset services (TB.07.03 (B7-3))
  • Obligations for crypto-asset transfers (TB.07.04 (B7-4))
  • Statistics (TB.08.01 (B8))
  • Statistics on crypto-asset services (TB.08.02 (B8-1))
  • Statistics on crypto-asset transfers (TB.08.03 (B8-2))
Show all 18 templates
  • Declaration of a defaulting payment or crypto-asset service provider in the payment chain (TB.09.01 (B9))
  • Free comments (TB.10.01 (B10))

Templates of entry point lcb-ft-bq in the LCB-FT 2.4.0 annotated templates (variants: general, light 1, light 2). The ACPR also publishes a quarterly complement template. Source

Validation rules

796 rules, as counted from the ACPR's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: XBRL assertions in the LCB-FT taxonomy, listed in a CSV with RC and business expressions.

The rules, on esurfi.banque-france.fr

How they were counted

Rows of 'ACPR_LCB-FT_Validations_v2.4.0.csv' (not marked removed, not deactivated) whose filing indicator is one of the 18 templates of entry point lcb-ft-bq; rules on templates shared with insurance (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B8, B10) are counted for both sectors.

Counts are in the ACPR's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No data from this return published by the ACPR was found on the pages checked. Source

Official documents (12)

The ACPR's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.